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More cupcake recipes to try

These no junk muffins are delicious! Sweetened with apples and a dash of maple syrup and easy on the saturated fat in favour of oil, they’re a healthy alternative to the average muffin, making them perfect for kids.

These sticky topped lemon and poppy seed muffins were completely improvised but came out really quite wonderfully. The yellow tinge – JD’s idea – is courtesy of a drop of food colouring and seems to get the tastebuds working overtime on the lemony, sticky-sweet flavours – well, they do say the first bite is with the eye!

I love jaffa cakes – and today’s cupcakes are a celebration of the humble jaffa cake – chocolate sponge topped with a layer of orange jelly and sealed in by a generous slather of rich chocolate ganache.

Yes, plain – just because it’s what I had in the cupboard. Have updated the recipe for clarity, but if you have some self-raising wholewheat flour, you could use that and just skip the baking powder :)